Stearns v. Gittings
Illinois Supreme Court
This case was tried before "Sibley, Judge, and is the same case reported in 19 Ill. R., page 379, where the facts are fully stated. The only new facts now presented are set out in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
In this case, we are asked to review the decision announced, when it was before the court on a former occasion, and to hold, the ninth section of the conveyance act unconstitutional and void. In that opinion it was held that the section under consideration could not be upheld and sustained, as an act which transfers vested rights or titles from one person to another, but that it was a limitation law, and as such, should be governed by the same rules as all other acts of that character. That decision was announced after a full argument of the question, upon mature reflection, and was…
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